Re: CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM feature

[Derek Robert Price]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:

> Derek Robert Price <derek@ximbiot.com> writes:
>  
>
> > Still, it shouldn't hurt to allow both an env variable and a command
> > line option to set this.
> >    
>
> Right. Having an environment variable is orthogonal to command-line
> settings.
>
> That said, it might be 'interesting' to have a way to have the .cvsrc
> file use per CVSROOT settings for options. This would allow a user to
> always add the CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM command-line equivalents for the
> repositories that they are using that are mirrors of a master.
>
> As I said, I think it needs more work for design and choice of command
> line switches. We also need to see what code paths go thru the
> RCS_magicrev() function. I think it will end up being just the 'cvs
> commit' command (espeically for a new file on a branch) and the 'cvs
> tag' and 'cvs rtag' commands to create the new branch in the first
> place.
>  

Ah.  That's a good point.  I hadn't considered multiple repository 
mirrors being used by the same user yet.  Via pserver access and inetd 
or xinetd, a user could configure different ports per repository and 
thus change the CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM content.

Perhaps it is better to leave local mode to a script which could be 
distributed in contrib or with CVSup which would change the env var 
dependant on the CVSROOT.

Even better, back to the CVSROOT/config option, can CVSup be configured 
to ignore updates to a single file, such as CVSROOT/config in order to 
allow mirrors to maintain their own configuration?  This might be the 
most sensible approach and just might be doable now (with the addition 
of the CVSROOT/config option to CVS).

Derek

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